UAW workers launch unprecedented strike against all Big Three automakers

See? That dude can hussle.
If that was the Ford plant, it would've taken 6 workers 3 hrs to get that mailbox removed and in the truck. Not including their 5 breaks and lunch. Not to mention 2 of them would've been "injured" and out on comp for 2 yrs.

 

How about welfare/food stamps getting a 25% raise last year

to help stimulate the economy

I don’t know too many free market folks that got a raise last year.

just sayin.

 

Depending on how this goes one of two things are going to happen:

1. If they get close to their demands, EVERY a union will strike in short order.

2. They will have to accept the 20% increase and go back to work…..or risk losing their jobs. I have to imagine that there will be a lot of people flocking to those factories to accept some of those jobs for that pay.

And let me be clear, I am NOT suggesting that these jobs are easy in the least. But a 20% pay raise and a livable wage with stability would be enough for many people to flock there.

 

That only applies if it was a salary position.

Either way, the employer agreed to it

 

I joined a union for the first time this year……new job essentially required it. Here is what I will say: these negotiations don’t come without sacrifice. What I have learned in my short time at the new job is that the union definitely advocates and serves a purpose, BUT there are compromises from the previous non-union job. Namely flexibility in leave, comp time, etc. They are sticklers for that now and there is a finite amount of time you can take. Any time I am not at work during working hours I am required to take leave.
The other thing - the UAW are asking for increased medical benefits…..which they will probably get and deserve. But that cost will be passed onto the workers by increasing union fees, etc. None of this will be “free”

 

But how do you really feel?? Be honest

 

11.52? That was a good year lol

 

This contract is still pretty bologna, though. They were never going to let us strike, it was all a show. Local 340

 

Well, you probably need education to work where he works.

 

I want to work 20 hrs p/wk, paid for 40.

 

I note with interest the demand to return to a "traditional pension" and have to put on my professorial hat. Most folks do not recognize what "traditional pension" means. Prior to 1974, pensions stood on their own, backed solely by the pension assets of the company that created them and in some cases the Unions that invested those monies. When companies failed and there were insufficient assets in the pension plan then the pensioners lost.
In 1974, the Unions successfully lobbied Congress to pass ERISA. That legislation is known for many different things (many aspects of which are good) but as to pensions it created the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) in order to provide "insurance" for pension plans; that is a guaranty of about 75-80% of the pension liabilities of private employers and union pension plans. If the pension plan invests well, then the company is permitted to terminate the plan (typically through purchasing annuities) and for the employer to keep the surplus. Oddly, it also permitted companies to underfund their pension liabilities by only requiring minimum funding payments. As examples, the GE pension plan is underfunded by about $27 billion and the GM pension is underfunded by about $20 billion. Upon failure of a company, if the pension plan is underfunded, then the PBGC picks up most of the pension liabilities. And PBGC means taxpayers. Thus, all taxpayers must satisfy the unreasonable pensions or the incompetence of Union investments of those pension monies. The compromises of the politicians in order to pass the ERISA legislation have left us the taxpayer holding the proverbial bag.
That is why most all companies have left traditional pension plans in favor of 401(k) plans which means all workers only have recourse to their own 401(k) monies and there is no recourse to the company or the government as guarantor.
Thus, Unions can insist on "traditional pensions" and increased pay without regard to the economic welfare of the company because when the company fails they get a government guaranty. There is no responsibility for one's own welfare and investment decisions; just rely on Uncle Sam and all of the taxpayers to take care of you.

 

So that's how y'all can afford '23 TRD pros. I'm doing it all worng.

 

I guess I'm in a different situation. Having house paid off and pennies for the land, those kinds of wages would go a long way for me. Oh, and no kids.

 

Guess I should've stayed in Nuke school haha! What was your rate, bud?